US Patent Issued to Topcon Positioning Systems on Feb. 3 for "Method for automatically controlling cyclical operations of an earthmoving machine" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,450, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Topcon Positioning Systems Inc. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Method for automatically controlling cyclical operations of an earthmoving machine" was invented by Alexey Vladislavovich Zhdanov (Moscow), Alexey Andreevich Kosarev (Moscow) and Andrey Nikolayevich Zabegaev (Korolyov, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earthmoving machine and method for automatically controlling cyclical operations of the earthmoving machine are disclosed. The earthmoving machine includes a plurality of machine elements each controlled by one or more respective actuators. the method comprises: determining a current mach...